红杏出墙 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 紅杏出牆 hóngxìngchūqiáng ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄔㄨ ㄑㄧㄤˊ lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) fig. a wife having an illicit lover Character by character 红(hóng)surname Hong 杏(xìng)apricot 出(chū)go out 墙(qiáng)wall A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0